Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: drmike on April 18, 2017, 03:48:14 am
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It's already almost monochrome but better in B&W would you think?
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3928/33632260080_27dff57513_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TeY8c7)
Mike
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In my opinion: No.
The single colour adds something to the composition. In B/W, I feel that there is not enough tonal difference, nor a spatial pattern that would benefit from B/W.
Not saying that B/W would ruin this shot, but I don't think there would be any advantage of B/W over what you have here.
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I agree with Otto. The bit of color is needed.
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I agree too.
The picture seems to me to be about the continuity-discontinuity of the paint film and its dependance on the rigid support.
I think the main risks here are too much continuity and too even support.
Matting or framing it could help.
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Strikes me the main risk is that in either color or B&W there's no there there.
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Thanks guys - I thought the colour was essential as well.
Russ: not sure what you mean :)
Mike
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Sorry, Mike. Maybe I should have been more specific. What is this a picture OF? Is it s rip in some cloth? What's the segmented tube on the right for? It certainly has ambiguity, but ambiguity without a subject doesn't really cut it.
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Not really a picture OF anything just a play on shape, shade and a little bit of relatively startling colour. I can't see any ambiguity and feel no need for any really although I know for some odd reason ambiguity plays a strong role on LuLa.